Virtual Machine Manager Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The VMM must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.
Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DoD systems or by organizations with insufficient secur...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must maintain a separate execution domain for each guest VM.
VMMs can maintain separate execution domains for each executing guest VM by assigning each guest VM a separate address space. Each VMM guest VM has a distinct address space so that communication be...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must protect against or limit the effects of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by ensuring the VMM is implementing rate-limiting measures on impacted network interfaces.
DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. This require...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
Information can be either unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during preparation for transmission, for example, during aggregation, at protocol transformation points, and during pa...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received.
A common vulnerability of VMM is unpredictable behavior when invalid inputs are received. This requirement guards against adverse or unintended system behavior caused by invalid inputs, where VMM r...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must implement address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in non-executable regions of memory or in memory locations that are prohibited. Data execution prevention safeguards can either be ...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must perform verification of the correct operation of security functions: upon system startup and/or restart; upon command by a user with privileged access; and/or every 30 days.
Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed. Security function is defined as the hardware, software, and/or firmwar...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security levels occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity -
The VMM must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...Rule Medium Severity
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